Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Henri Bergius – Embrace And Extend: „These [SPDY, Dart, Schema.org] – together with WebSQL, NaCl, WebM and WebP – mean that Google has active efforts to replace practically every layer of the web (except HTML itself) with something of their own design. The way all of these were introduced bears strong reminders of how Microsoft…

„Watir, pronounced water, is an open-source (BSD) family of Ruby libraries for automating web browsers. It allows you to write tests that are easy to read and maintain. It is simple and flexible. Watir drives browsers the same way people do. It clicks links, fills in forms, presses buttons. Watir also checks results, such as…

Brad Feld on a Steve Jobs quote – Start With Customer Experience: „I believe very strongly in the consumerization of IT – namely the notion that innovation in software is now being driven by consumer applications, and correspondingly by consumers, not by enterprise IT organizations and enterprise software vendors. If you accept this, it means…

Alex Payne – al3x’s Rules for Computing Happiness: „Do not use software that must sync over the internet to function. [Ed.: I’m looking at you, Microsoft Outlook.] […] Use a plain text editor that you know well. […] Do not use anything other than a Mac at home and Linux/BSD on the server. […] Buy…

Seth Godin – Not fade away: „Just because there are no firestorms on the porch doesn’t mean you’re doing okay. More likely, there are relationships out there that need more investment, quiet customers who are unhappy but not making a big deal out of it.“

Mac OS X Lion Server has a nice built-in directory (LDAP) server – when you need to password protect a web page hosted there, you don’t want to set up user accounts in old-fashioned „htpasswd“ text files. It’s much nicer to set up HTTP basic authentication against the users and groups you manage in the…

Seth Godin – The facts: „Your position on just about everything, including, yes, your salary, your stock options, your credit card debt and your mortgage are almost certainly based on the story you tell yourself, not some universal fact from the universal fact database.“

Steve Denning on „Radical Management“ – The Death—and Reinvention—of Management: Part 1: „The firm makes money, but this is the result of delighting the customer, not the goal. […] Nayar saw that the people doing the work were the ones who created value for the customers. Taken together they created the value zone within the…

Vic Gundotra – Icon Ambulance: „But in the end, when I think about leadership, passion and attention to detail, I think back to the call I received from Steve Jobs on a Sunday morning in January. It was a lesson I’ll never forget. CEOs should care about details. Even shades of yellow. On a Sunday.“

Aaron Levie, CEO of box.com – What I learned from Steve Jobs: „We all have the ability to create excellence. And frankly, it’s a lot more fun when we do. Crap is less fun, less inspiring, less motivating, and less rewarding. And if at any point you stop doing pursuing excellence, just ask yourself, ‚what…